Wireless carriers fined $200 million for allegedly sharing customers’ location data
The head of the FCC says Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile "failed to protect the information entrusted to them."
The head of the FCC says Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile "failed to protect the information entrusted to them."
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling customers’ real-time location data without their consent. AT&T’s fine is more than $57 million, Verizon’s is almost $47 million, T-Mobile’s is more than $80 million and Sprint’s is more than $12 million, according to the FCC’s announcement.
The Federal Communications Commission has slapped the largest mobile carriers in the US with a collective fine worth $200 million for selling access to their customers' location information without consent.
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